The Hartford Day Spring, Feb. 2, 1944
Funeral services for S-Sgt. Robert A. Timmons were conducted in the Zuver and Calvin funeral home Sunday afternoon, January 17 at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Norman Clapp officiated and burial, with complete military rites, was in Maple Hill cemetery.
A delegation of nine soldiers from Fort Custer fired the military salute at the grave, while Sonny Kesterke played "taps". American Legion members participated at the military services, and the Mothers of World War II attended the funeral in a body.
S-Sgt. Timmons was killed in a plane crash January 3, which occurred about 70 miles west of Wendover Field, Utah. He was a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress which was bound for an overseas destination when stormy weather and motor trouble caused the plane to crash into the Cedar mountains.
Surviving the young soldier are his mother, Mrs. Joda Cochrane, of Hartford; his father, Earl Timmons, of Sister Lakes; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Timmons, and Henry Anthony, of Coloma; and a half-brother, "Mickey" Cochrane.
Funeral services for S-Sgt. Robert A. Timmons were conducted in the Zuver and Calvin funeral home Sunday afternoon, January 17 at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Norman Clapp officiated and burial, with complete military rites, was in Maple Hill cemetery.
A delegation of nine soldiers from Fort Custer fired the military salute at the grave, while Sonny Kesterke played "taps". American Legion members participated at the military services, and the Mothers of World War II attended the funeral in a body.
S-Sgt. Timmons was killed in a plane crash January 3, which occurred about 70 miles west of Wendover Field, Utah. He was a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress which was bound for an overseas destination when stormy weather and motor trouble caused the plane to crash into the Cedar mountains.
Surviving the young soldier are his mother, Mrs. Joda Cochrane, of Hartford; his father, Earl Timmons, of Sister Lakes; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Timmons, and Henry Anthony, of Coloma; and a half-brother, "Mickey" Cochrane.
The Hartford Day Spring, Feb. 2, 1944
Funeral services for S-Sgt. Robert A. Timmons were conducted in the Zuver and Calvin funeral home Sunday afternoon, January 17 at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Norman Clapp officiated and burial, with complete military rites, was in Maple Hill cemetery.
A delegation of nine soldiers from Fort Custer fired the military salute at the grave, while Sonny Kesterke played "taps". American Legion members participated at the military services, and the Mothers of World War II attended the funeral in a body.
S-Sgt. Timmons was killed in a plane crash January 3, which occurred about 70 miles west of Wendover Field, Utah. He was a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress which was bound for an overseas destination when stormy weather and motor trouble caused the plane to crash into the Cedar mountains.
Surviving the young soldier are his mother, Mrs. Joda Cochrane, of Hartford; his father, Earl Timmons, of Sister Lakes; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Timmons, and Henry Anthony, of Coloma; and a half-brother, "Mickey" Cochrane.
Funeral services for S-Sgt. Robert A. Timmons were conducted in the Zuver and Calvin funeral home Sunday afternoon, January 17 at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Norman Clapp officiated and burial, with complete military rites, was in Maple Hill cemetery.
A delegation of nine soldiers from Fort Custer fired the military salute at the grave, while Sonny Kesterke played "taps". American Legion members participated at the military services, and the Mothers of World War II attended the funeral in a body.
S-Sgt. Timmons was killed in a plane crash January 3, which occurred about 70 miles west of Wendover Field, Utah. He was a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress which was bound for an overseas destination when stormy weather and motor trouble caused the plane to crash into the Cedar mountains.
Surviving the young soldier are his mother, Mrs. Joda Cochrane, of Hartford; his father, Earl Timmons, of Sister Lakes; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Timmons, and Henry Anthony, of Coloma; and a half-brother, "Mickey" Cochrane.
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